On Wednesday we had a ‘World of Work’ day.

We took the opportunity to team up with Primary 6/7 for some collaborative learning and had a fantastic time discussing different career and job options.

We then worked together to create storyboards for an iMovie. The plot was based around the main character’s job and we had lots of thoughtful discussion about the skills involved.

This week we also started to get some practise in for the sports championship – which will be taking place after the holidays.

This week also saw the completion of Round 3 of our chess championship. We are so proud of the sportsmanship and the skills that have been developed. There is lots of excitement as we head into the semi finals! 😊

Have a great weekend!

This week we organised the themes for ‘Walk to School Week’ as part of our role as the JRSO.

We had ‘Mixed up Monday’, ‘Team up Tuesday‘, ‘Wild Wednesday‘, ‘Think about it Thursday‘ and ‘Freestyle Friday‘.

We thought it was a great success and want to think the rest of the school for taking part!

This week we continued working on our ‘Persuasive writing’ by creating ‘adoption adverts’ for the animals on the SSPCA website.

We produced some really quality pieces of work that included our opinion, points to back it up and persuasive language. We also tried to use paragraphs to organise our writing. Take a look at our pieces so far.

Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school ‘Big Talk Homework Challenge’.  This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.

This term we will be having a World of Work day so the title of the talk will be ‘When I am older, I would like to be…’.

At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk.

Some ideas to include in their talk might be:

• What job would you like to do when they are older and why?
• What skills or equipment might you need for the job/ what skills would this job help to develop?
• What skills do you have that would make you a good fit for this career?
• More information about your chosen job & the role you would like to take on.
• You could also use other ideas to enhance your talk e.g. PowerPoint (saved on GLOW or pen-drive), drawings, diagrams or items from home.

The talk should be ready to be presented the week bg Monday 6th June.

We look forward to hearing about what they would like to be!

This term we will be focusing on and developing our persuasive writing. This means to convince others of a view point.

This week, we decided to give our writing a real life focus and began to research all about the SSPCA. We learned lots about the amazing work they do and have decided to develop our writing skills by writing ‘adoption adverts’ for some of the animals that need rehomed.

We used the laptops to visit the SSPCA website and picked an animal to write an advert for. There were lots of VERY cute animals and it was difficult for lots of us to choose just one!

When we had chosen a pet, we then began to do some research which will help us with our persuasive writing.

We can’t wait to get started!